Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Devils in Red Dress
Though males vastly outnumber females in China, shengnü—“leftover women”—haunt the country’s imagination
Sunday Reading
This is not a post about discovering science. This is not a post about discovering science. This is not a post about discovering science. This is not a post about discovering science.
The Dark Art of Glamour
Looking your best is never just about you; glamour is a spell and a grammar
A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals
Though not always a smorgasbord, meals enjoyed by Norsemen sometimes offered a little taste of Valhalla
Study Abroad
The account of a self-styled "rogue" sociologist studying upwardly mobile sex workers and drug dealers fails as scholarship and as memoir.
Hi Honey, I'm Home: Makeup and Cohabitation
If you use makeup to delineate the public from the private, what happens when your private space becomes shared?
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
Aspiring for middle-class life in Tehran can become an occult pursuit
Vernacular Criticism w/ Brian Droitcour @ New Museum 10/12
Writer and critic Brian Droitcour presents “Vernacular Criticism,” a talk that looks to writing about art outside the established channels of professional media as a…
Domesticated WildCats
Everything is crime when work and crime do not call out to each other over the fall’s roar, forever pledging revenge.
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
The Hollywood witch’s real oath isn’t to the goddess or Satan—it’s to have and to hold
Suspiria @ Anthology Film Archives 10/8
On the occasion of the first-ever NYC concerts (Oct 6 & 7) by Goblin – Dario Argento’s favored composers – Anthology and Malastrana Film Series…
Vol. 21 Editors' Note: Witches
“Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation and self-medication that elude the social and sexual order...
Sunday Reading
As the old Aztec proverb has it, "When the going gets weird, the weird get Sunday Reading."
the weapon of the disinherited
grazie, Alberto
Page Turner: The AAWW Food and Books Festival @ Roulette/The YWCA 10/5
[rlinstallation by Nicola Lopez[/rl] Half block party, half book bash, PAGE TURNER: The AAWW Food and Books Festival is an unforgettable all-day free public fair…
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks